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Dmitrii Kovanikov
Personal blog · chshersh.comprogrammingmath
Dmitrii Kovanikov's personal blog at chshersh.com covers programming and math. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Avoiding space leaks at all costs”. It has a working feed you can follow.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on CCL, the Categorical Configuration Language. One commenter used CCL in a project, liking its meaningful whitespace and noting it is underspecified in places.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website and blog
Most-linked posts?
- Avoiding space leaks at all costs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-03
- Using a 50-years old technique for solving modern issues (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-11
- CCL: Categorical Configuration Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-06
What Hacker News says?
Human-readability was one of the aspects that I enjoyed about using CCL,the Categorical Configuration Language ( https://chshersh.com/blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-config... ), in one of my projects recently. It saves you from escaping stuff inside of multiline-strings by using meaningful whitespace. What I did not like about CCL so much that it leaves a bunch of stuff underspecified. You can make lists and comme…
Comment linking /blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-configuration-language.html
on “I prefer human-readable file formats”Submitted 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023) as a story · 264 points
HN discussionSubmitted CCL: Categorical Configuration Language as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a 50-years old technique for solving modern issues (2022) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pragmatic Category Theory Part 1: Semigroup Intro as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comonadic Builders as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding space leaks at all costs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding space leaks at all costs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding space leaks at all costs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a 50-years old technique for solving modern issues (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion